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For 7,775 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Jojo Rabbit
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,349 out of 7775
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7775
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7775
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  1. Spa Night
    It recombines elements of the emigrant saga and the coming-of-age story into a searching, fresh-faced portrait.
  2. Ixcanul
    The film's structure, however stifling, is filled with gorgeous imagery and nuanced symbolism.
  3. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
    It routinely alternating between episodes that contrast exhilaration with exploitation and damnation.
  4. Imperium
    It demonstrates both the fatal proximity and deceptive distance that can exist between the words and deeds of extremists.
  5. Kampai! For the Love of Sake
    Mirai Konishi's documentary inevitably reveals itself to be an elaborate infomercial for Westerners.
  6. Kubo and the Two Strings
    It offers a powerful metaphor for the manner in which we carry the memories of our departed inside ourselves.
  7. Florence Foster Jenkins
    The film champions coddling people like Florence Foster Jenkins and treats critical thinking as the enemy.
  8. Sausage Party
    Though the filmmakers may not believe in a higher power, they still maintain a faith in raunchiness as an id-blasting form of liberation from rigid norms, spiritual, sexual, or otherwise.
  9. Blood Father
    The film shrewdly capitalizes on Mel Gibson's off-screen embarrassments and controversies.
  10. Hell or High Water
    As with Sicario, the broad strokes of the film's Southwestern stereotypes gradually sharpen into focus as the story pivots to a look at the systemic forces that shape the characters.
  11. Abortion: Stories Women Tell
    Tracy Droz Tragos's documentary examines its titular subject with a compassionate eye for regional detail.
  12. The Model
    The film unapologetically warns us at every turn that fashion is nothing but a business, fueled by naiveté and rape.
  13. The Lost Arcade
    The film's images have a loose, rough, textured liveliness that honors the spirit of Chinatown Fair.
  14. Joshy
    The film feels most real, even at its most absurd, when focused on the idea of closure as a kind of fantasy.
  15. Anthropoid
    Director Sean Ellis's film offers a potent examination of the moral rectitude of resistance.
  16. Disorder
    Alice Winocour's film begins as a vivid portrait of a man warily eyeing the tumult of his homecoming.
  17. Edge of Winter
    One comes to resent the film for how it thrills to the possibility of a father hurting his children.
  18. Amateur Night
    The film is peppered with interesting true-life details, but these are overwhelmed by frantic comedic sequences.
  19. Suicide Squad
    Like the recruited criminals themselves, the film longs to be bad, yet its forced by outside pressures to follow narrow, preset rules.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Neither Heaven Nor Earth
    While he may indulge in the occasional programmatic jump scare, writer-director Clément Cogitore ultimately heaves his debut feature closer to the realm of psychological terror, understanding that there's nothing more frightening or darker than the human mind.
  21. Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
    The documentary is just more of what we've come to expect from director Richard Linklater's expanded fanverse.
  22. Will You Dance with Me?
    Derek Jarman's footage speaks to the freedoms afforded by the combination of a darkened dance floor and like-minded people.
  23. The Tenth Man
    As films about dopey dudes finding love go, The Tenth Man is too modest for its own good.
  24. Front Cover
    The very few instances where stereotypes are challenged are forced and didactically delivered.
  25. Five Nights in Maine
    Maris Curran never reconciles the film's impulse to interiority with its weakness for hothouse melodrama.
  26. Little Men
    Director Ira Sachs transforms the smallest blip on life's radar, a childhood friendship, into a momentous occasion.
  27. Don't Blink - Robert Frank
    Like the work it illuminates, the doc feels formally impeccable yet utterly unstaged, a vivid distillation of a distinct and precious life.
  28. Bad Moms
    The end-credits sequence shows up the rest of the film as the broad and incoherent live-action cartoon that it is.
  29. Pete's Dragon
    It abandons its subtlety en route to becoming a moralistic screed about the preservation of the nuclear family.
  30. Ants on a Shrimp
    It offers lively and layered images that reveal the chefs both as individuals and components of a larger social organism.
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